Re: Test program with VM or FS problems

[Rik van Riel]

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:

> I bet the use-once page replacement heuristic is doing the wrong thing.  
> I noticed it playing up once - the machine had 30M on the inactive list
> and reading a 40M file repeatedly caused that file to never get cached.  
> it just kept on reclaiming itself.

Hmmm, we'll have to figure out a way to fix this.

A metastable replacement algorithm is sure to make
Roger Luethi's load control stuff harder ;)

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"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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